A 'FAMILLE-VERTE' ROULEAU VASE QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD

finely painted around the sides with a continuous court scene depicting a general and his wife seated in front of a large ornamental screen painted with turbulent waves and rocky outcrops, flanked by attendants before an audience of officials and ten boys surrounding a table lain with hu tablets, framed above by a ruyi-head border, the shoulder with four shaped cartouches enclosing river landscapes reserved against a diaper ground, the cylindrical neck painted with four rectangular landscape panels divided by writhing chilong, with chevron and cloud scrolls above

There is an extremely faint hairline, possibly to the interior, running horizontally mid-way of the vase. Aside from minor surface scratchings, traces of enamel loss, and minor glaze firing imperfections such as iron spots and burst glaze bubbles, the vase is in good condition.
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The elaborate court scene appears to represent the eightieth birthday celebrations of the Tang Dynasty General Guo Ziyi (AD 697-781). Compare a Kangxi period famille verte vase painted with a variation of this scene in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 14.40.335.